I concur w/ Trey. Bing titles: Entity Pane <https://blogs.bing.com/search/2014/08/07/technical-searches-have-been-turbo-charged/> and Snapshot Pane <https://blogs.bing.com/search/2013/12/12/expand-your-understanding-with-bing/>. Knowledge Panel is good overall.
--justin On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 11:38 AM, Trey Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Pine, > > Google's underlying database is called Knowledge Graph, and some people > call it that > <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/16/google-knowledge-graph_n_1521292.html>. > Microsoft > Bing's similar knowledge base is called Satori Knowledge Base. Looks like > Google calls the sidebar a Knowledge Panel > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Graph#Knowledge_panels> > (original source > <https://support.google.com/business/answer/6331288?hl=en>). > > I would've called it search summary, but some people seem to use that to > refer to the snippets under the title/link for a result. > > "Knowledge panel" seems to be reasonably generic, unambiguous, and > definitely understandable with some minimal explanation. A few quick > googles show that both "knowledge panel" and "knowledge graph" are being > genericized <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark>, and you > can find people using both when discussing Bing, though Microsoft probably > don't use either term. > > Also of note, while a *lot* of info in Google's knowledge panel comes > from Wikipedia, but not all of it, so "Wikipedia sidebar" would not be > quite accurate. > > Hope that helps, > —Trey > > Trey Jones > Software Engineer, Discovery > Wikimedia Foundation > > On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 2:17 PM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Discovery, >> >> Is there a particular term for search engine sidebars of Wikipedia >> content? For example, do we call them "search engine previews" or >> "Wikipedia sidebars on search pages"? I imagine that Google and Microsoft >> have certain terminology, and I'd like to be consistent when I'm referring >> to them in the LearnWiki videos, provided that the term is something that >> the average user would understand. >> >> Thanks, >> Pine >> >> _______________________________________________ >> discovery mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > discovery mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery > >
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